School of Animal Biology

Current postgraduates

• Arnall, Sophie - Ecoenergetics of the Western Swamp Tortoise: Modelling the Translocation Viability of Australia’s Rarest Reptile
• Bain, Karlene - Ecological study of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) in the southern forests of south west WA
• Bouchet, Phil - Predictive models of mobile oceanic predator (MOP) hotspots in the Eastern Indian Ocean
• Braithwaite, Janelle - Identifying Critical Cetacean Habitats for Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off the Northwest Coast of Australia
• Buzatto, Bruno - The evolution of polyphenic male dimorphism in arthropods
• Chadwick, Aprille - Improving Goat Welfare On-farm: Assessing the stress associated with artificial insemination and semen collection of Cashmere goats
• Chapuis, Lucille - Auditory abilities of sharks and their relatives
• Ciprian, Mikaela - The role of ethics and emotion in the decision making process of Animal Ethics Committees
• Clancy, Rachel - The dispersal of honey possums (Tarsipes rostratus) in relation to habitat fragmentation and fire
• Döbert, Timm - Land use change and species invasion: synergistic effects of multiple drivers of global change on species interaction networks.
• Eads, Angela - Effects of environmental stress on early life-history traits in marine broadcast spawners
• Elliott, Joanne - The roles of attitudes, social influence and human behaviour in the adoption of strategies to improve lamb survival by sheep producers.
• Francis, Jennifer - Understanding Ecological Processes Controlling Biodiversity in Temporary Wetlands of Northern Australia: A Tadpole Model
• Giustiniano, Danielle - Paternity, sperm storage and sperm competition in the critically endangered Western Swamp Tortoise, Pseudemydura umbrina.
• Goot, Annemieke van der - Investigating reproductive physiology in the free-living white rhinoceros: Providing new insights towards enhanced breeding success in captivity
• Guan, Yongjuan - The effect of nutrition on the testes of rams
• Hamilton, Zoe - Patterns and processes of evolution in Rhagada from the Pilbara region, WA.
• Hara, Ana - Diet and distribution of New Zealand Fur Seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) in Western Australia
• Harms, Danilo - Phylogeny and phylogeography of pseudoscorpions belonging to the subfamily Pseudotyrannochthoniinae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae)
• Jorre de St Jorre, Trina - Characterisation of the ‘male effect’ in Merino ewes; the importance of novelty and recognition
• Kempster, Ryan - The role of electroreception in the feeding behaviour of elasmobranchs
• Leivers, Samantha - How to men judge and respond to perceived female infidelity?
• Levy, Esther - Genetic Variation and Population Viability in the Ornate Dragon Lizard, Ctenophorus ornatus
• Li, Xixi - How do Eremophila glabra inhibit methane production in rumen
• Lund, Kirrin - Understanding energy and protein partitioning in alpacas using a nitrogen balance approach
• Malloch, Emma - The urban ecology of western ringtail possums (pseudocheirus occidentalis): abundance, survival and resource use in remnant habitat patches in Busselton, WA
• Moore, Kelsie - Does breeding selection of alpacas for finer fibre have welfare and health implications?
• Murray, Travis - Examining the commercial potential of selection on temperament in dairy ewes
• Nang, Charn - The effect of stuttered disfluencies on the temporal deployment of spontaneous speech
• Rietema, Stacey - Does a genetic susceptibility to stress change the physiological response to stress?
• Robinson, Stephen - The effects of relatedness on mate choice and fitness traits for male and female fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster.
• Rosales Nieto, Cesar - The effect of muscling genotype on reproductive performance of Merino ewe lambs.
• Rosser, Natalie - Alternative breeding times and evolutionary pathways in corals in north Western Australia
• Silla, Aimee - Development and application of assisted reproductive technologies for the conservation of anuran amphibians
• Sood, Sushil - Physical and Chemical constraints in short and long-term storage of emu semen
• Stankowski, Sean - Evolutionary patterns and processes in a continental archipelago radiation of Rhagada land snails
• Tay, Sharon - Renal and hormonal responses in offspring of ewes fed a high salt diet during pregnancy
• Tedeschi, Jamie - How about some fried eggs? Assessing the resilence of marine turtle embryos to extreme temperatures
• Thavornkanlapachai, Rujiporn - Genetic consequences of mammal translocations in Western Australia using case studies of Dibblers, Burrowing bettongs, and Black-flanked rock wallabies.
• Van der Weyde, Leanne - Characterising the reproductive biology of the African wild dog quantified through non-invasive faecal sampling
• Vianna, Gabriel - Population structure, spatial ecology and socio-economic value of reef sharks in Palau, Micronesia.
• Warrington, Rachael - Visual and non-visual light detection in jawless fish
• Wells, Alexandra - Decision-making in Agriculture – What wool producers intend to do about preventing breech strike beyond 2010 and why
• Yeatman, Georgina - Habitat utilisation by terrestrial vertebrates in the jarrah forest: investigation into spatial patterns of distribution and abundance at landscape and regional scales.
• van der Waag, Jessica - Dispersal and survival of young Malleefowl in isolated remnants

Graduated students

• Ali, Ahmed - Improving the nutritive value of lupins by pectinases for poultry
• Bickell, Samantha - Investigating the effect of temperament in helping establish the ewe-lamb bond
• Binks, Rachel - Investigating the evolutionary significance of morphological variation in the Australian sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma
• Brown, Rachel - Therapy for Anomia Following Stroke: Applications from Lexical Processing Theory
• Cartledge, Victoria - Water balance in Australian cocooning and non-cocooning desert burrowing frogs
• Carver, Scott - The effect of dryland salinity on biodiversity and trophic processes that regulate Ross River virus disease ecology
• Chambers, Brian - Understanding the impact of human disturbance on the ecology, populaton dynamics and behaviour of tammar wallabies, Macropus eugenii, on Garden Island, WA.
• Christophersen, Claus - Grain and artificial stimulation of the rumen change the abundance and diversity of methanogens and their association with ciliates
• Clemente, Christofer - Evolution of locomotion in Australian Varanid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanidae) : ecomorphological and ecophysiological considerations
• Creasy, Robert - Host Plant Resistance in <i>Medicago truncatula</i> (Leguminosae) to <i>Acrythosiphon pisum</i> (Aphididae)
• Edward, Karen - Systematics and biogeography of the Goblin spider genus Ischnothyreus (Oonopidae)
• Engelke, Clare - The formation of conjugated linoleic acids in kangaroos and lambs
• Farid, Waleed - The effects of maternally administered naltrexone on the developing rat brain
• Firman, Renee - The evolutionary implications of polyandry in house mice (Mus domesticus)
• Ford, Stewart - Kidney form and function and the role of agrinine vasotocin (AVT) in three agamid lizards from different habitats in Western Australia
• Fox, Elizabeth - Call-independent identification in birds
• Hetherington, Cheryl - Use of deslorelin to manage an urban population of brushtail possums
• Hutton, Peter - Antimicrobial plants of Australia have the potential to prevent lactic acidosis in ruminants
• Langlands, Peter - Conservation of spiders (Araneae) in the rangelands of Western Australia
• Lie, Hanne - Not just a pretty face: facial appearance and heterozygosity
• Mayberry, Christopher - Management of reproduction in western grey kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus)
• Mayberry, Dianne - Getting into the guts of a salty problem: does the high level of salt in saltbush reduce the benefits that sheep would otherwise gain from microbial fermentation of the forage?
• McMaster, Kellie - Ecophysiology of Australian cocooning and non-cocooning, burrowing, desert frogs
• Morellini, Natalie - The effect of Metallothionein on wound healing and re-innervation following a burn injury
• O'Brien, Eleanor - Local adaptation and genetic variation in south-western Australian forest trees: implications for restoration
• Oates, Jessica - The reproductive endocrinology of the honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus and Western pygmy possum, Cercartetus concinnus
• Parsons, Blair - Malleefowl in the fragmented Western Australian wheatbelt: spatial and temporal analysis of a threatened species
• Perks, Sharron - Improving the quality and quantity of sperm obtained from male anurans via assisted reproduction
• Peters, Marianne - The role of male secondary sexual traits in human mate choice: are they preferred by females and do they signal mate quality?
• Reza Ferasyi, Teuku - Mathematical model of the reproductive endocrine system in male sheep
• Rhodes, Michelle - Impact on aquatic communities associated with changes to sediment and magnesium sulphate loads at the Argyle Diamond Mine, Kununurra, Western Australia.
• Rix, Michael - Taxonomy and systematics of the Australian Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae)
• Schmidt, Sylvie - Ecological Physiology of Macropod Marsupials
• Shikh Maidin, Mashitah - Nutritional control of goat reproduction
• Stephens, Danielle - Developing DNA-based monitoring techniques for the improved management of feral dogs and dingoes in Australia
• Symonds, Andrew - Investigating the expression of the topographic guidance molecules, EphA5 and ephrin-A2, as well as metallothionein function, in the injured and regenerating adult mammalian visual system
• Turner, Peter - The ecological impacts of an environmental weed and the potential to predict the long-term benefits from its biological control through changes in plant and invertebrate communities
• Underwood, Jim - Routine and rare genetic connections in corals off northwest Australia and the implications for conservation
• Watson, Nicola - The Evolution of Female Ornamentation in Onthophagine Dung Beetles
• Williams, Andrew - Mechanisms of immune-mediated scouring in parasite-resistant Merino sheep
• Wojcieszek, Janine - Investigating the role of sexual selection in a Western Australian millipede
• Young, Michael - The evolution of geographical colour pattern variation in the western rainbowfish, Melanotaenia australis (Castelnau 1875)